The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.

You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.